507 Mechanical Movements has animations with canvas that seem to have a higher frame rate than the animated GIFs on this site. However, all those diagrams are something that SVG would be a perfect fit for and you can actually animate SVG in a more natural way by saying »This object should rotate« or »this object should move there« instead of drawing every frame by hand (with the occasional pixel errors). Plus, it'd be vector graphics.
(Edit: Just read the explanation how they do it, and notice that even the CAD program doesn't make it any easier, if they have to manipulate everything by hand, but at least the SVG process would be pretty much identical while allowing for arbitrary framerates and higher quality output.)
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507 Mechanical Movements has animations with canvas that seem to have a higher frame rate than the animated GIFs on this site. However, all those diagrams are something that SVG would be a perfect fit for and you can actually animate SVG in a more natural way by saying »This object should rotate« or »this object should move there« instead of drawing every frame by hand (with the occasional pixel errors). Plus, it'd be vector graphics.
(Edit: Just read the explanation how they do it, and notice that even the CAD program doesn't make it any easier, if they have to manipulate everything by hand, but at least the SVG process would be pretty much identical while allowing for arbitrary framerates and higher quality output.)